Bravo Company Manufacturing makes the best AR platform rifle (a 16" middy is the flavor du jour) for the money, and their product rivals (and arguably betters, IMO, e.g. charging handle features - things like that) Colt & FN (FN bought the TDP from Colt and is now the official manufacturer for the DoD) in any and every way, but costs about 20% less.

I have zero affiliation with the company or any of its affiliates or retailers or channels in any way, shape or form, whatsoever.

And here comes the "wow, dude, that's blasphemy" statement: I am not fond of 5.56 and if you're not heavily invested in the platform, check out 6.8 SPC, though ammunition availability and cost is yet to reach economy of scale yet.

Also at least consider a AR-10 like a LWRC if you want something with more horsepower.

Thanks... Depends on what you hope to achieve with it. Sig 556 or Rock River AR in 5.56 are great, but excessive for home defense. Most people would be better off with a nice Mossberg 500 and put the extra $$$$ in silver... Cheers

All nice guns, but I like your idea best. Something like an old SKS X39 7.62x39, redress it with synthetic everything (looks close to an AR15), total cost $350, and you can shoot dirt out of it and butter NATO bread. Invest the rest into silver -- and away!

Check out CDNN. Best prices I can find online. 1100 is a little steep, I'm guessing you live in some blue state hell hole like me? The catalog is a pdf download. Take the info to your local FFL, have them contact CDNN and the Texans will ship it to them. Shop around, FFL's in this area have a variance of "transfer" charges by as much as 20 bucks.

I purchased a Chinese AK47, 7.62x39 round. I done a ton of modifications to it already with a tad bit more to come. 2k rounds of ammo and counting... http://www.redreign.us/ak.jpg

I choose the AK platform for [reliability]. Having been in the Middle East from 2003-2007 Simply dropping your weapon or hitting the ground hard and getting any debris in your chamber can cause jams... Throw an AK purposefully into the mud, throw dirt purposefully into the chamber and you still have zero issues firing the weapon. I dare you to try that with your AR platforms.

"In the chaos of an early morning assault on a remote U.S. outpost in eastern Afghanistan, Staff Sgt. Erich Phillips’ M4 carbine quit firing as militant forces surrounded the base. The machine gun he grabbed after tossing the rifle aside didn't work either.

When the battle in the small village of Wanat ended, nine U.S. soldiers lay dead and 27 more were wounded. A detailed study of the attack by a military historian found that weapons failed repeatedly at a “critical moment” during the firefight on July 13, 2008, putting the outnumbered American troops at risk of being overrun by nearly 200 insurgents."

I am not trying to start a pissing contest. Just keep in mind you wont always be shooting from controlled conditions at a gun range. You have to think of when the SHTF/WROL scenario manifests itself... I am assuming that is why you are all purchasing weapons...

Whatever your choice, best of luck during the coming transition period...

Agreed. Lead-spitters are for armies- the fanciers will tell you how accurate they are, and they can be, but they are really designed to wound as many a possible as quickly as possible, under the theory that if you wound one guy, you effectively remove two from the battlefield when his buddy carries him to safety.

Myself, I've got the 870 and a really nice Marlin 30-30 lever gun. 30-30 was always a good coach gun, and has about 2x the range of a shotgun when hunting larger game. Have taken many deer with both shotgun and lever over the years.

No kidding, I popped out of a position today, to reverse directions then had to put the original back on... unfortunately my brokers updates were very far behind and my first 3 attempts at orders didn't get filled. Then I just had to reverse right back into the original position. On the bright side though with every lesson costing hundreds of dollars I am remembering everything I learn! lol

And I think the Gay fashion short should soon change its mind after some dipshit fund manager went all in on the Greek rumor. Anybody catch the put/call ratio on the XRT today? I absolutely, categorically, without any question whatsoever, cross their heart, pink swear it is a sweet number.

no, reuters just did it's part, i would say. so, the news is out, and the devil's in the details. this was the Econ&FinComm of deputy ministers. hi-level meeting is 6.20.11: "Details...remain to be worked out in time for a June 20 meeting of euro zone finance ministers, the source said."

so i'd say the leak is planned, relatively reliable and reliably deniable. BiCheZ.

In order to be on track with the White House's wildly optimistic predictions, we would need to be adding hundreds of thousands of new jobs every month. Is that happening? no. Then even by their own standards, they're complete failures.

derivatives: once the banksters called the shot on what would be considered a default (any re-scheduling) and refused to budge, they got what they wanted. and, the credit default swaps will trade for 3 more years. maybe.

anyhow, this is the real-time NWO trying to figure out wtf to do next. but now, the banksters have the blueprint. for the nations (reuters): The source said the programme would involve detailed commitments by Greece on the governance of a new national wealth agency and the timing of specific privatisations, but it would stop short of intrusive international supervision of the agency. (END Paste from reuters, my emphasis)

Translation: They want to decide who gets what piece of paper, without any government meddling in (democratic representation), and will collect taxes (thus assuming taking control over sourvereignity). No visible leader, for the people that might have a complaint, to adress to.

It's perfect, in that it fits like a glove in the absorption of Greece into the global inverted totalitarian structure.

Except for that it will fail IMO. The model only works if there's a slow transition. It seems to me, they're in a hurry, counting on chaos to assist in overcoming their lack of a stable basis for the continuation of the bailout scam. (an obvious scam because it's an insolvency crisis for everyone to see) If this is their model, good luck with that! lol

I just saw the new Adam Curtis docu: Don't agree with everything, but it does lift some ideas about what might go on in the minds of the ruling elite, out of the mists of uncertainty.

Europe (Holland and Germany excepted) a trainwreck? Big f'n surprise. The only circus that can make the D.C. circus look good is the Brussels circus. A bunch of commies squabbling with a bunch of crypto-nazis.

This whole European fiasco reminds me of the way that soccer is played on the international stage. You know what I'm talking about. Player 1 is running down the field with the ball without a care in the world. Player 2 sticks his leg out (maybe, maybe not) and "trips" Player 1 who (naturally) falls and then proceeds to flail about on the turf as if he's just had his leg shot off. The ref runs over and gives them both a yellow card at which point Player 2 starts jumping up and down like a toddler whose favorite bankie has just been taken from him by a mean big brother. Meanwhile, not to be outdone, Player 1 miraculously gets up and starts doing his little dance in the ref's face protesting the mistreatment he suffered at the hands (er, feet) of Player 2. It's Europe's version of a night at WWE after someone has been wronged with a folding chair. I'll let you figure out who's Player 1 (PIIGS, sorry, couldn't resist) and who's Player 2 (ECB, IMF, Germany, France, Chairsatan, the American taxpayer, etc.; sorry, my bad again).

Jean Clown-Junker announced today or was it last week some time because nobody really gives a rats ass anymore and only the butt ass insane are paying any attention, that everything in the whole fucking Euro-Ozone-Zone would be just Hunkie-Fucking-Dorrie if everybody would keep their mouths shut and quit spewing bullshit until he can be appointed as the new unelected titular (Opps, bad choice of words after DSK!) head (This one, too!) of the yet to be established but under some sort of potential consideration to be possibly added to the next agenda for the newly unelected Head of Finance or Some Such Ministry for the EU as a whole whether anybody wants it or not. Until then he has publicly stated that it's best if everybody just pretends that AUgust has arrived and books their Peak Season rooms and suites in Greece for early arrival. The Greek Ministry of Cultural Confusion has agreed with said establishment of said pretend Continental mass vacation time and has promised free stale Baklava and Ouzo for the first 50 participants to arrive at the temporarily closed while everybody is on vacation (starting early, evidently) Athens International Bus Terminal. So as to assuage any concerns concerning monetary affairs, Goldman Sachs has opened a temporary Cambio d'Exchange at the end of the far south wing of the Bus terminal immediately adjacent to the out of order Women's Water Closet in the Smoking Area.Juncker went on to say publicly; "Why can't we all just be friends?" emphasizing by demonstration the spirit of European Unity by kicking a stray puppy square in its nut sack. "If you fuckers don't shut the fuck up and just let me handle this, we'll never get anything accomplished. Like,how many times do I have to tell you that too many chefs spoil the pot. We desperately need to establish a pan-European committee to properly calculate the number of national representatives allowed to speak on behalf of their own countries without the approval of any non-functional EU bureaucracy so as to mitigate further confusion during these sensitive time." he said as he picked up his luggage on his way to the Hotel 6 and Quickie Mart on the Placa where Dominique Strauss Kahn was recently installed a night concierge and resident child entertainment specialist. More to follw on this breaking story.And remember, it's only Thursday!

Jesus said it was okay to curse when it's really necessary to stress the gravitas of a situation, and it's not being done casually or without specific and significant reasons of the conveyance of urgency.

Man this is all just straight up bullshit! Whole world gone completely insane to the point of schizophrenic daily flip flops on whether continents are totaly bankrupt, or totaly saved for years to come. NUTS!

No doubt. For an organization whose sole purpose is to maintain the narrative this sort of deviation from the norms of bull shit peddling is most worthy of ridicule. A sure tell tale as to the current condition of the institution and what passes for process. Leona Helmsley managed the media better.

As usual, and we have seen this so many time... someone puts the rumour out, just as the market looks like breaking.... euro rallies, stocks go bid then when the denial comes its too late, the damage is done, the shorts have covered and we dont go back to where we were before. Its criminal, it really is.

Folks do not forget the European leadership has admitted they lie to protect the markets. Soooo that begs the question are they lying about the denial of an agreement which means there is an agreement and should you believe them if they say they have an agreement which could me they have no agreement. If you keep running in circles for 15 days you might figure it out or lose 40 pounds.